EP0711217A4 - Method and apparatus for making nanostructured materials - Google Patents
Method and apparatus for making nanostructured materialsInfo
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- the present invention is concerned generally with a method of making a nanostructured material. More particularly, the invention is concerned with a method of making a variety of stoichiometric-nanostructured materials by controlling the working gas composition in a plasma arc system.
- the production rate of nanostructured material can also be substantially enhanced by combining N2 or H2 gas with Ar working gas.
- nanostructured materials exhibit enhanced or unique properties compared to typical polyciystalline materials.
- metallic nanostructured materials can be sintered at low temperatures but exhibit higher hardness and yield strength than polyciystalline metallic materials.
- Ceramic nanostructured materials exhibit much greater ductility at low temperatures compared to conventional ceramic materials.
- the process In order to manufacture such nanostructured materials, it is necessary to control the particle size and chemical stoichiometry. However, in order to prepare commercial quantities of these nanostructured materials, the process must also allow rapid production while controlling the chemistry and particle size. Current methods of manufacture do able some control of particle size but cannot reliably control the chemical stoichiometry or rapidly manufacture the material in large quantities while also controlling the particle size and stoichiometry.
- FIGURE 1A is one embodiment of a plasma arc system constructed in accordance with the invention and FIG. IB is another embodiment of the system;
- FIGURE 2A illustrates one embodiment of gas injection nozzles for the plasma arc system and FIG. 2B shows another gas injection nozzle embodiment;
- FIGURE 3 A shows an X-ray diffraction plot of a TiN nanostructured material and FIG. 3B shows an X-ray plot of a TiC>2 nanostructured material;
- FIGURE 4A is an energy dispersive X-ray analysis output for a titanium oxide prepared without oxygen present in the working arc and FIG. 4B for a titanium oxide prepared with oxygen in the working gas;
- FIGURE 5 A illustrates a top view of a nozzle for turbulent mixing of a nanocrystal aerosol using tangentially injected gas and FIG. 5B shows the mixing nozzle with radially injected gas;
- FIGURE 6 is a mixing nozzle for receiving nanocrystalline aerosol from a plurality of sources
- FIGURE 7 is a graph of quench/react n gas flow rate into a mixing nozzle versus nanociystalline particle diameter
- FIGURE 8 A is a graph of nanocrystalline particle size versus gas quench flow rate into the plasma tail flame
- FIGURE 8B is the nanocrystalline particle size versus quench/reaction gas injection point relative to the molten anode position
- FIGURE 8C is titania production rate
- FIGURE 9A shows particle size distribution for nanocrystalline material prepared in accordance with the invention as compared to a prior art method
- FIGURE 9B illustrates pore volume versus pore diameter for nanocrystalline material prepared in accordance with the invention as compared to a prior art method
- FIGURE 9C shows the pore size spacing distribution for a nanocrystalline material prepared in accordance with the invention
- FIGURE 9D shows the small angle neutron scattering characteristic of nanocrystalline material before treatment and after treatment to form the pore array of controlled spacing.
- FIG. 1 A plasma arc system constructed in accordance with the invention is shown generally in FIG. 1 at 10.
- the preparation of nanostructured, or nanocrystalline, material begins with the vaporization of a high purity precursor material 12 in a chamber 14 via an arc generated, for example, by a water-cooled TIG (tungsten inert gas) torch 16 driven by a power supply 18.
- the interior of the chamber 14 is preferably maintained at a relative pressure of about 20 inches of mercury vacuum up to +3 psi positive pressure (absolute pressure 250 torr to 1000 torr).
- the precursor material 12 is melted and vaporized by the transfer of arc energy from a nonconsumable electrode, such as a tungsten electrode 20 with 2% thorium oxide.
- a nonconsumable electrode such as a tungsten electrode 20 with 2% thorium oxide.
- the nonconsumable tungsten electrode 20 is shielded by a stream of an inert working gas 22 from reservoir 25 to create the arc.
- the working gas 22 acts to shield the nonconsumable tungsten electrode 20 from an oxidizing environment and then becomes a working plasma gas when it is ionized to a concentration large enough to establish an arc.
- the inert working gas 22 preferably contains argon and is directed by a water cooled nozzle 24 attached to the torch 16.
- the consumable precursor material 12 is, for example, in the form of a rod which has a diameter of 0.0625" to 2" diameter and is fed horizontally (see FIG. 1A) or vertically (see FIG. IB) relative to the nonconsumable tungsten electrode 20.
- the feed rod precursor material 12 is continuously fed to allow a stable arc and continuous production of nanocrystalline material. A continuous production is preferred over batch operation because the process can be run on a more consistent basis.
- the precursor material 12 is electrically grounded and cooled by a c per anode 28, and the precursor material 12 is given both translational —a rotational motion.
- the nonconsumable tungsten electrode 20 is preferably inclined at an angle so as to create an elongated arc plasma tail flame 30.
- the plasma tail flame 30 can be about one to several inches long.
- the plasma tail flame 30 acts as a high temperature gradient furnace into which the vaporized precursor material 12 is injected along with a quench and/or reaction gas 32 (hereinafter, "quench/reaction gas"), if desired, through the nozzle 35.
- quench/reaction gas a quench and/or reaction gas 32
- the amount of the quench/reaction gas 32 injected into the plasma tail flame 30 is controlled by a flow meter 36 having regulator 31 as in the case of the working gas reservoir 25.
- a concentric gas injection geometry is established around the plasma tail flame 30 to allow homogeneous insertion of the quench/reaction gas 32.
- the nozzle 35 is one of an arrangement of nozzles 37 as shown in FIG. 2.
- the quench/reaction gas nozzles 37 can be positioned at any point along the length of the plasma tail flame 30 as shown in FIG. 1.
- the insertion location of the quench/reaction gas 32 can act to truncate the length of the plasma tail flame 30 and allow control of the manufacturing process.
- the quench and reaction gas composition preferably is one of oxygen, nitrogen, helium, air or combinations of these gases.
- the plasma arc system 10 can be used to manufacture a variety of nanostructured material.
- titanium metal vapor in the plasma tail flame 30 can be reacted with nitrogen gas to form 8 - 25 nm TiN nanocrystals. Titanium metal can also be reacted with oxygen gas to form 5 - 40 nm T >2 nanocrystals (see the Examples).
- X-ray diffraction data of the two Ti based ceramic materials TiN (FIG. 3 A) and Ti ⁇ 2 (FIG. 3B) show that two distinct materials are formed using the plasma tail flame 30 as a reaction zone. Transmission electron microscopy also shows distinctly different morphologies for die two materials.
- a dissociable inert gas such as, nitrogen, hydrogen or both
- a dissociable inert gas such as, nitrogen, hydrogen or both
- a higher temperature in the plasma tail flame 30 allows for a more complete reaction of the precursor material 12 with the reaction gas 32.
- control of the point of injection can be used to control the completeness of reaction of the precursor material 12.
- the large temperature gradient also can control the nanocrystal formation (size and distribution) and the degree to which the nanocrystals agglomerate.
- FIG. 4 shows an energy dispersive X-ray analysis of material made without (FIG. 4A) and with (FIG. 4B) 0.5% oxygen present in the working gas 22. It is apparent that even a small amount of oxygen (>0.5%) in the working gas 22 can cause tungsten impurities at levels of about 0.2% in the final product.
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry impurity analysis shows that the materials made by this process, and not using oxygen in the working gas 22, are very pure. Table 1 shows the typical impurities present in materials made by this preferred method.
- a nanocrystal aerosol 40 (see FIG. 2) is formed by the quench/reaction gas 32, the agglomeration of the nanocrystals takes place. At this point the aerosol 40 is turbulently mixed in a reducing cone-shaped nozzle 42 to prevent further agglomeration.
- Recirculated gas or room air 44 is introduced by blower 46 into the cone-shaped nozzle 42. The recirculated gas 44 can be injected into the nozzle 42 radially (see FIG. 5B) or tangentially (FIG. 5A) by a gas inlet head 48.
- the swirling motion of the gas 44 generated in the cone-shaped nozzle 42 mixes and dilutes the aerosol 40 with the cool recirculated gas 44 to prevent further agglomeration of the nanocrystals.
- the cone-shaped nozzle 42 can also be used to blend and homogenize the nanocrystal aerosol 40 generated by one or more sources 43 as shown in FIG. 6.
- the sources 43 can be of the same material to increase production rates or individual sources generating a different material allowing the formation of composites.
- a mixed aerosol 45 is rapidly expanded into a large volume collector housing 50 by the action of the blower 46.
- the expansion of the gas allows further cooling of the aerosol 45.
- a temperature decrease of several hundred degrees has been measured after expansion of the gas.
- the large collector housing 50 contains a filtering media 54.
- the filtering media 54 traps the weakly agglomerated nanocrystals, and the gases are separated through the filtering media 54 by the blower 46.
- the nanocrystals remain on the filtering media 54 until they are released by a gas pulse from gas jet source 56.
- the filtering media 54 can be porous sintered metal or cloth fibers with a temperature resistant coating.
- the agglomerated nanocrystals behave as conventional powders; and once freed from the filtering media 54, the powders are gravitationally collected in a storage vessel 58 through a valve 60.
- the quality of the nanostructured material can be controlled by the point at which the quench/reaction gas 32 is injected, and the dilution of the nanocrystal aerosol 40 can be made soon after formation of the particles.
- FIG. 7 is shown the agglomerate particle size versus the amount of the quench/reaction gas 32 that is radially or tangentially injected into the cone-shaped mixing nozzle 42.
- the quench/reaction gas 32 can be injected at the same point depending on the arc current and precursor material.
- the quench reaction gas 32 is preferably injected into the plasma tail flame 30 at the point where the temperature is such that nucleation and condensation have their onset. At any point in the plasma tail flame 30 there is a balance between condensation and evaporation of the embryonic crystallites. Analytically, this critical particle size is expressed with the following temperature and material property dependence,
- d ⁇ is the critical particle diameter
- ⁇ is the surface tension ( ⁇ /m)
- V a is the atomic volume (m ⁇ )
- k is Boltzman's constant (1.38 x 10-23 / ⁇ )
- T is the temperature (K)
- P v and P 0 are the actual and equilibrium vapor pressure ( ⁇ /m2).
- v is the velocity (m/s)
- 1 is the arc current (A)
- J is the current density (A/m ⁇ )
- ⁇ 0 is the free space permeability (1.256 x 10"8 N/A ⁇ )
- p is the vapor density (kg/m"3).
- Critical particles can be cooled quickly by injecting the quench/reaction gas 32 at the appropriate location where the monomers form, and the number of monomer collisions can be reduced by dilution with an optimal amount of the quench/reaction gas 32. This control measure can allow achievement of the desired small particle size. Because the velocity component varies as r -1 / 2 , the amount of the quench/reaction gas 32 injected can become more important than the point of gas injection.
- FIG. 8A is shown the average particle size as a function of the amount of the quench/reaction gas 32 injected into the plasma tail flame 30, and FIG. 8B illustrates the effect of the injection location of the quench/reaction gas 32 upon the nanocrystalline particle diameter.
- the reaction gas can be introduced with the quench gas or separately in order to form an oxide, carbide or nitride from the metallic or semiconducting precursor material (e.g., precursor Si can be used to form Si ⁇ 2, Si3N4, or SiC).
- precursor Si can be used to form Si ⁇ 2, Si3N4, or SiC.
- Introducing the reaction gas with the quench gas into the plasma tail flame 30 allows the formation of a higher melting point material which enhances the quenching process and enhances the formation of small nanocrystal particles.
- a dissociable gas for example, H2 or N2
- in the working gas 22 allows the plasma tail flame 30 to reach a higher temperature which allows a more complete reaction of the precursor vapor.
- the working gas 22 and oxygen is used as the reaction gas 32 and injected into the plasma tail flame 30, a substoichiometric (oxygen deficient) metal oxide nanocrystal product is formed.
- the substoichiometry can be detected by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction or thermo gravimetric analysis.
- the substoichiometric material requires post processing to achieve complete oxidation. The post processing usually involves annealing the powder at high temperature in air. This step often increases the degree of agglomeration and causes particles to grow in size.
- the formed nanocrystal product can be made fully stoichiometric; and the product requires no post processing.
- This gas mixture reduces cost in manufacturing the nanostructured material and allows the formation of a weakly agglomerated material.
- the effect this has on particle size is quite substantial.
- nanocrystals are weakly agglomerated and range in size from 15-20 nanometers, whereas those particles that require post reaction will in general end up being 30-50 nanometers in diameter.
- the nanocrystals formed by the process described herein can be tested for their ability to form a nanostructured material.
- a high energy process like ball milling can be used to break down the particles. However, the ball milling step often introduces contaminants into the material and reduces purity.
- TEM transmission electron microscopy
- BET BET surface area measurements
- TEM and BET average particle sizes should be nearly identical.
- the average TEM crystallite size, and the average BET particle size should be within 30% of each other in order to have weak enough agglomeration to form a nanostructured material.
- the nanocrystals generated in the process show a much smaller average size and a narrow size distribution relative to Other prior art methods for making nanocrystalline materials (i.e., U.S. Patent 4,642,207),
- Table 2 shows a comparison of aluminum oxide and zirconium oxide generated by the instant process and by the process in U.S. Patent 4,642,207. Although both processes use arc energy to generate a vapor of the precursor, the modifications of this instant process yield better nanocrystalline material with smaller particle size and narrower size distribution. It should also be noted that a smaller size distribution has been obtained without the addition of a high frequency induction plasma like that used in U.S. patent 4,732,369.
- the degree of the agglomeration in nanostructured materials can be measured by either bulk consolidation of the nanocrystals or by dispersion of the nanociystals. Consolidation testing of the nanocrystal powders is achieved by placing a suitable amount of nanocrystalline powder into a die and punch apparatus and applying pressure in the range of 1000 - 40,000 psi to the punches. The resultant pellet is nanostructured if it has a pore size distribution that is similar to the grain size distribution. Materials that are optically transparent in the bulk single crystal state will also be transparent as a nanostructured material since the grains and pores of the material are much smaller than the wavelength of visible light (i.e., below 50 nm).
- the BET and TEM average particle sizes are shown in Table 3 along with the average pore size and distribution width.
- a transparent sample can be obtained by consolidating nanocrystals with a weak degree of agglomeration.
- An opaque sample results if prepared from nanocrystals with stronger (harder) agglomeration, forming a material with small grains, but large pores.
- Agglomeration is controlled by the injection location in the chamber 14 and the amount of the quench/reaction gas 32 injected, and the amount of gas injected into the cone-shaped mixing nozzle 42. This type of porosity can be difficult to remove by conventional sintering processes.
- Table 3 all sizes are in nanometers sample TEM BET avg. pore size pore range crystallite size particle size transparent 8 9 5 1-10 opaque 10 36 10 2-30
- FIG. 9 shows the pore size distribution, grain size distribution and regularity of pore spacing of titanium oxide.
- the data labeled "other" is from titanium oxide generated by the process described in US patent 5, 128,081.
- the unlabeled data is from titanium oxide generated by the process in this instant invention .
- FIG. 9A the TEM particle size distribution is much smaller and narrower using the process described in this invention.
- An additional test of the agglomeration is the dispersion of untreated nanocrystal powders which is achieved by applying ultrasonic energy from a sonicating probe (0.2 - 1 Watts) to a liquid solution (water or ethylene glycol) that has a 5-50% weight loading of nanocrystals.
- the ultrasonic energy forms a colloidal dispersion that remains -dispersed and in suspension for a minimum of five months.
- the nanocrystals can remain in suspension for longer periods of time.
- This dispersion test determines whether the nanocrystal powders generated by the process described in this invention are weakly agglomerated and have high purity and clean particle surfaces.
- a metal rod l/8"-3" diameter of Ti, Al, Zr, Y, Fe, Cr, V, Cu, Si, Sn, or Zn, with a known starting purity (99-99.99% pure) was used as an anode in a transferred arc.
- the cathode was 2% thoriated-W electrode and was shielded by 25-100 cfh of a working gas of argon combined with 5-100% nitrogen and/or 5-50% hydrogen.
- the current of the arc ranges from 100-750 amps.
- the arc creates a plasma tail flame 1-4 inches long and evaporates the anode metal precursor.
- the 1-200 g/hr of metal vapor is injected into the plasma tail flame created by the transferred arc.
- a metal rod 1/8 "-3" diameter of Ti or Al with a known starting purity was used as an anode in a transferred arc.
- the cathode was a 2% thoriated-W electrode and was shielded by 25-100 cfh of a working gas of argon in combined with 5-100% nitrogen or 5-50% hydrogen.
- the current of the arc ranges from 100-750 amps.
- the arc creates a plasma tail flame 1-4 inches long and evaporates the anode metal precursor.
- the 1-200 g hr of metal vapor was injected into the plasma tail flame created by the transferred arc.
- a metal powder was mixed in a 15-50 wt% loading with metal-oxide powder. The powders were then compounded into a rod l/2"-3" diameter by pressing and sintering. The rod was electrically conductive and used as an anode in a transferred arc.
- the cathode was a 2% thoriated-W electrode and shielded by 25-100 cfh of a working gas of argon in combined with 5-100% nitrogen or 5-50% hydrogen. The current of the arc ranged from 100-750 amps.
- the anode was evaporated by the arc and 1-200 g/hr of the anode vapor was injected into the 1-4 inch long plasma tail flame created by the transferred arc.
- Nanocrystalline powder was made as in Example 1, was uniaxially consolidated in a die and punch arrangement with a pressure of 5-50 kpsi.
- the resulting bulk specimen has a density of 40-50% of its bulk theoretical value.
- the porosity in the compact has a narrow size distribution with pores ranging from 1-50 nm. If the consolidated specimen is heated to temperatures near 900°C, the porosity remains narrowly distributed and becomes ordered such that pore separation distance becomes constant throughout the sample.
- the ordering was detectable through the use of small angle neutron scattering (SANS), as shown in FIG. 9D. As shown in FIG. 9C, the ordering results in a well-defined distribution of pore spacings.
- SANS small angle neutron scattering
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